The police department arrests and detains criminals, the fire department puts out fires, doctors treat illnesses; so where do IT professionals fall in a list like this?  I would say they “resolve technical issues”.  Now we can expand each of these groups scopes of work and make it about education, early detection, and prevention.  But…

As many of you may have seen last week we are growing.  To be honest we are looking to grow every day, whether that is a new client or a new team member to serve our clients.  Growth is the lifeblood of any small business.  If you aren’t growing you are likely shrinking and that…

  Welcome to the world were your car, TV, smoke detector, thermostat, and even your coffee maker connects to the Internet.  Don’t believe me?  Well Gartner says we will have 4.9 BILLION connected devices in use by the end of this year.  This number also includes the usual suspects in the form of our PCs,…

How many of you have that “one thing” you need to get done that you just can’t seem to find the motivation to get done?  Or you realize you have taken on too much to get done with the time you have?  I hate to admit it but I seem to do this all the…

Welcome to 2016!  This stands to be one of the most exciting or terrifying years in my life depending on how I look at it.  But either way change is coming and I have to decide how to approach it.  Recently someone said to me change comes in one of two forms, change because pain…

With a title like that I bet you think I am going to kick the “end of 2015 start of 2016” horse one more time don’t you? Well not this time, instead I wanted to use this space this month to reflect on how technology has changed and influenced me over my 40 years of…

I had the privilege of attending the Mercer University Executive Forum the other night to listen to David Cumming speak about innovation and entrepreneurship. He told his story of starting businesses and supporting entrepreneurs in Atlanta and Georgia. He tried to make some important points for where Macon could go if it embraced startups and…

Welcome officially to Q4 2015.  Time flies when your busy with your head down working hard each day both at work and at home.  So much so we can go a long time without really stopping to look at where we have been, where we want to go and whether we are on track to…

How many of us have continued to do something in hopes of what we want the outcome to be will all of a sudden just happen?  I know I’ve used this thinking from time to time.  Putting on an old pair of pants and just hoping “Maybe this time they will fit” even though I…